Half a century ago, Sam Cooke‘s song “Wonderful World” climbed up the U.S. pop charts to hit 12, the R&B charts to the number 2 slot. Released on April 14, 1960, it also elevated its co-composers, Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, into the top ranks of record-company executivedom, and from there they would do wonderful things—not least Alpert’s reinventing himself soon after as a trumpet-carrying matador at the head of the Tijuana Brass, and Adler’s promoting the ever-subversive comedy duo Cheech and Chong.

There’s not much to say about “Wonderful World,” except: enjoy, in the hope that a better video will someday appear. Enjoy the Tijuana Brass clip that follows, too—and why not a little Cheech and Chong, while we’re at it, offending just about every sensibility? Sometimes, just sometimes, music that you don’t have to think about (or, to paraphrase Pee-Wee Herman, you shouldn’t think about) is a good thing.